Michał Kosiński

16.9k total citations · 10 hit papers
81 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Michał Kosiński is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michał Kosiński has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 30 papers in Clinical Psychology and 23 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michał Kosiński's work include Personality Traits and Psychology (26 papers), Mental Health via Writing (12 papers) and Impact of Technology on Adolescents (12 papers). Michał Kosiński is often cited by papers focused on Personality Traits and Psychology (26 papers), Mental Health via Writing (12 papers) and Impact of Technology on Adolescents (12 papers). Michał Kosiński collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Michał Kosiński's co-authors include David Stillwell, Thore Graepel, Sandra Matz, Margaret L. Kern, Lyle Ungar, H. Andrew Schwartz, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Wu Youyou, Martin E. P. Seligman and Samuel D. Gosling and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michał Kosiński

78 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

Private traits and attributes are predictable from digita... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2013 2015 2015 2017 500 1000 1.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior
    2013 1.5k citations Michał Kosiński, David Stillwell et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach
    2013 1.1k citations H. Andrew Schwartz, Johannes C. Eichstaedt et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  3. Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans
    2015 623 citations Wu Youyou, Michał Kosiński et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Facebook as a research tool for the social sciences: Opportunities, challenges, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines.
    2015 602 citations Michał Kosiński, Sandra Matz et al. American Psychologist profile →
  5. Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion
    2017 469 citations Sandra Matz, Michał Kosiński et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Automatic personality assessment through social media language.
    2014 466 citations Gregory Park, H. Andrew Schwartz et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  7. Characterizing a psychiatric symptom dimension related to deficits in goal-directed control
    2016 347 citations Claire M. Gillan, Michał Kosiński et al. eLife profile →
  8. Deep neural networks are more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation from facial images.
    2018 307 citations Yilun Wang, Michał Kosiński Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  9. Human-like intuitive behavior and reasoning biases emerged in large language models but disappeared in ChatGPT
    2023 95 citations Thilo Hagendorff, Sarah Fabi et al. Nature Computational Science profile →
  10. Evaluating large language models in theory of mind tasks
    2024 51 citations Michał Kosiński Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michał Kosiński United Kingdom 40 3.2k 2.2k 2.1k 2.0k 1.5k 81 9.4k
David Stillwell United Kingdom 35 3.0k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 2.0k 1.0× 1.8k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 76 8.2k
Jeffrey T. Hancock United States 63 6.9k 2.1× 3.2k 1.5× 3.5k 1.7× 1.7k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 220 13.8k
Munmun De Choudhury United States 52 2.7k 0.8× 2.5k 1.1× 3.6k 1.7× 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 206 8.7k
Margaret L. Kern Australia 48 2.5k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 4.9k 2.4× 3.6k 1.8× 2.1k 1.3× 120 11.7k
Johannes C. Eichstaedt United States 31 1.4k 0.5× 1.7k 0.8× 2.2k 1.1× 1.0k 0.5× 1.0k 0.7× 95 5.6k
H. Andrew Schwartz United States 34 1.4k 0.4× 1.6k 0.7× 2.0k 0.9× 930 0.5× 938 0.6× 97 5.3k
Nicole C. Krämer Germany 44 3.1k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 2.0k 1.0× 590 0.3× 517 0.3× 219 6.8k
Nick Yee United States 31 5.4k 1.7× 721 0.3× 2.1k 1.0× 1.0k 0.5× 865 0.6× 42 9.5k
Jesse Chandler United States 20 3.4k 1.1× 571 0.3× 1.9k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 37 9.1k
S. Shyam Sundar United States 59 7.6k 2.4× 2.9k 1.3× 2.2k 1.1× 385 0.2× 602 0.4× 248 13.0k

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All Works

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Hagendorff, Thilo, Sarah Fabi, & Michał Kosiński. (2023). Human-like intuitive behavior and reasoning biases emerged in large language models but disappeared in ChatGPT. Nature Computational Science. 3(10). 833–838. 95 indexed citations breakdown →
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Giorgi, Salvatore, Khoa D. Le Nguyen, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, et al.. (2021). Regional personality assessment through social media language. Journal of Personality. 90(3). 405–425. 18 indexed citations
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Kosiński, Michał. (2021). Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 100–100. 65 indexed citations
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Matz, Sandra & Michał Kosiński. (2019). Using Consumers’ Digital Footprints for More Persuasive Mass Communication. 11(2). 18–23. 3 indexed citations
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Youyou, Wu, David Stillwell, H. Andrew Schwartz, & Michał Kosiński. (2017). Birds of a Feather Do Flock Together. Psychological Science. 28(3). 276–284. 80 indexed citations
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Kosiński, Michał. (2017). Facial Width-to-Height Ratio Does Not Predict Self-Reported Behavioral Tendencies. Psychological Science. 28(11). 1675–1682. 55 indexed citations
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Matz, Sandra, Michał Kosiński, David Stillwell, & Gideon Nave. (2017). Psychological Framing As an Effective Approach to Real-Life Persuasive Communication. ACR North American Advances. 4 indexed citations
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Kosiński, Michał, Yilun Wang, Himabindu Lakkaraju, & Jure Leskovec. (2016). Mining big data to extract patterns and predict real-life outcomes.. Psychological Methods. 21(4). 493–506. 121 indexed citations
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Gillan, Claire M., Michał Kosiński, Robert Whelan, Elizabeth A. Phelps, & Nathaniel D. Daw. (2016). Characterizing a psychiatric symptom dimension related to deficits in goal-directed control. eLife. 5. 347 indexed citations breakdown →
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Park, Gregory, David B. Yaden, H. Andrew Schwartz, et al.. (2016). Women are Warmer but No Less Assertive than Men: Gender and Language on Facebook. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0155885–e0155885. 89 indexed citations
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Granica, Sebastian, Michał Kosiński, Jakub P. Piwowarski, et al.. (2016). Effects of Geum urbanum L. root extracts and its constituents on polymorphonuclear leucocytes functions. Significance in periodontal diseases. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 188. 1–12. 27 indexed citations
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Schwartz, H. Andrew, Maarten Sap, Margaret L. Kern, et al.. (2015). PREDICTING INDIVIDUAL WELL-BEING THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA. PubMed. 21. 516–527. 95 indexed citations
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Bachrach, Yoram, Thore Graepel, Pushmeet Kohli, Michał Kosiński, & David Stillwell. (2014). Your digital image: factors behind demographic and psychometric predictions from social network profiles. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1649–1650. 17 indexed citations
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Park, Gregory, H. Andrew Schwartz, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, et al.. (2014). Automatic personality assessment through social media language.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 108(6). 934–952. 466 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kosiński, Michał, David Stillwell, & Thore Graepel. (2013). Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(15). 5802–5805. 1548 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kern, Margaret L., Johannes C. Eichstaedt, H. Andrew Schwartz, et al.. (2013). From “Sooo excited!!!” to “So proud”: Using language to study development.. Developmental Psychology. 50(1). 178–188. 48 indexed citations
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Rentfrow, Peter J., Samuel D. Gosling, Markus Jokela, et al.. (2013). Divided we stand: Three psychological regions of the United States and their political, economic, social, and health correlates.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 105(6). 996–1012. 194 indexed citations
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Shokouhi, Milad, et al.. (2013). Inferring the Demographics of Search Users. 8 indexed citations

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